Pseudonyms

kallewesterling
Hi,

If I have a source authored by a person under pseudonym, how do I insert that into Zotero Standalone (or any part of Zotero, for that matter)?

Best,
Kalle
  • adamsmith
    how should it be cited?
  • kallewesterling
    MLA style.
  • kallewesterling
    Sorry, Chicago Manual of Style.
  • adamsmith
    no, I mean - how should the citation look? I suspect this won't work great in Zotero, but it might be possible to do something.
  • kallewesterling
    Well, I have several instances but a good one, I guess, is if I need to quote a blog post written by an author who is not using her/his real name on the website.
  • adamsmith
    sorry, we're still talking past each other. I need to know how the citation is supposed to look - e.g. if you cite a book by a known author you have

    Smith, A. (1776). An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell.

    how would a citation by a pseudonym be? If you don't know, you'll have to find out - we can only cover the technical aspect here.
  • kallewesterling
    Let’s say you want to create this reference:

    Le Carré, John [David John Moore Cornwell]. The Quest for Karla. New York: Knopf, 1982.
  • adamsmith
    yeah, that's not really possible at the moment.

    fbennett's multilingual Zotero may be able to do this by essentially entering the real name as a translation or transliteration of the pseudonym, but that's all there is. Unless you have many of them I'd just edit manually at the end.

    Also, at least in Chicago Manual of Style these are all "can" and not "must" rules - the default is to just use whichever of the two is better known.
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